Vicki Gold, Computer Science Teacher, Marshfield High School
This is Vicki Gold Computer Science teacher from Marshfield High school, and if any of you know me in the past I have had a very hard time introducing Scratch into my school. I am happy to say this year, I have had small successes.
This year we have a new Superintendent. He sends out weekly communications to the school district which includes a link of educational interest. I was able to include the scratch and scratched links to one week’s posting. In addition, there was an odd mistake in the links, so Scratch was listed in two successive issues. I now have a physics teacher very interested making an Einstein game, and younger students wanting to create projects with children from other countries. Later in the year the Special Education Department and I will apply for a grant to write an amazing app for android tables. The application will be able to be customized by the students using app_inventor. I have a group of young talented programmers waiting in the background jumping for the chance to start.
In my class I have been able to introduce the new Alice beta into my OO class. It is very good, and the students love 3D. Later in the year we will be using Scratch when we begin our Asteroid game. I know this is just a start of what the group envisions, but after five years of fighting I am very happy with these small steps.
Vicki Gold, Computer Science Teacher, Marshfield High School
This is Vicki Gold Computer Science teacher from Marshfield High school, and if any of you know me in the past I have had a very hard time introducing Scratch into my school. I am happy to say this year, I have had small successes.
This year we have a new Superintendent. He sends out weekly communications to the school district which includes a link of educational interest. I was able to include the scratch and scratched links to one week’s posting. In addition, there was an odd mistake in the links, so Scratch was listed in two successive issues. I now have a physics teacher very interested making an Einstein game, and younger students wanting to create projects with children from other countries. Later in the year the Special Education Department and I will apply for a grant to write an amazing app for android tables. The application will be able to be customized by the students using app_inventor. I have a group of young talented programmers waiting in the background jumping for the chance to start.
In my class I have been able to introduce the new Alice beta into my OO class. It is very good, and the students love 3D. Later in the year we will be using Scratch when we begin our Asteroid game. I know this is just a start of what the group envisions, but after five years of fighting I am very happy with these small steps.
Thank you, Vicki